Faith Filled Family Magazine November 2016 | Page 85

If the bully is bullied at home,
they are more likely to come to
school and act out what they
have experienced at home. That
is where parents can enforce the
rules in the home and disallow
anything that resembles bullying at home. Once again, it is
not just “part of being a kid.” We
need to lose that mentality.
It is not okay for a kid to go to
school and beat up on another
kid for no reason at all. It is not
okay for them to steal that kids’
lunch, or push them down, make
fun of them in front of a group.
None of this is okay. Yet if parents allow excessive teasing,
and hurtful words, pushing and
fighting at home, when one is
gaining ground over the other
and “lording it over” the other,
this is bullying behavior. This is
not okay. Parents have to take
control over situations while
their kids are young and not al-